Brooks Farm…. Squishy!!!
Brooks Farm Solana, purchased at Rhinebeck to make Cherie Amour.
On Thursday before SAFF, Aimee (AKA the Evil Enabler) took me to The Yarn Shop by Rainy Day Creations. I picked up the Cascade 220 to make these cute cabled gloves that she’s making, and probably a hat to go with them. The Opal is earmarked to become Kelp! Knits’ Ironwork Socks.
Friday, Cristi and I ran over to Charlotte Yarn, where a ridiculous amount of stuff jumped into my arms. I picked up the Malabrigo Chunky I used in the Passin’ the Dress Code, some Malabrigo Laceweight in “Applewood”, Blue Sky Alpaca & Silk in a lovely peacock blue for a Clementine Shawlette, and that big ball of squishy goodness in the back is some Fleece Artist Scotian Silk. No clue what it’s going to be, but damn is it soft. And pretty.
Saturday morning at SAFF, we tracked down Jana from White Oak Studio to get some of her TV Yarn. I was thrilled to find that she did have some “Doctor Who”, which I snapped up for Kris (on that, we finally got our season 3 dvd’s and watched the infamous “Blink” episode. I’ve been hearing about it for months, and OHMYGOD now I know why. SO GOOD!), along with “The English Patient” and “Sesame Street” for me.
And yes, I promised myself I wasn’t going to buy any fiber at Rhinebeck or SAFF if I didn’t spin up some of what I already had. Er… I fell down. I picked up some lovely Happy Hippy Optim in “Commune” and some… um… really pretty mystery orange and brown fiber. The bag of Jacob/Angora and the big ball of Lorna’s Laces roving? Yeah – I blame Aimee for those. Like I said – the Evil Enabler. See, Aimee was standing in a booth, oohing at the Lorna’s Laces roving, and I was outside the booth, talking to May. Aimee was yelling colors to us, and I looked at May and said, “As long as they don’t have…” and as the words “Black Purl” were ON MY LIPS, Aimee yells over, “They have Black Purl!” Curse her timing. (The Jacob/Angora was less evil – she showed me some Jacob/Alpaca she bought from a booth, and told me about the angora. I had to check it out.)
November 9th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I am jealous! So beautiful, all of it. (Kris is an awesome photog, by the way.) At least you knit at a fast enough rate to use up some of this stuff fairly quickly!
(Yay first!)
November 9th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Wow, nice haul!
November 9th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
You should that black purl to me, I’ll keep it safe for you
November 9th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
those gloves are done and waiting on a photoshoot tonight (do you know how hard it is to take pics of your own hands in gloves??)
The clementine – well, mine came out fantastically in the Alpaca Silk, and I can’t wait to see yours!!!
As for being the Evil Enabler….ummm…That’s right. I am Ev0L. get used to it (and really you should be calling Cristi evil – most of my enabling happened at SAFF – hers was ALL at Charlotte Yarn!
November 9th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Yay, Optim!
November 9th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Oh wow, when I went to Kid N’Ewe Brooks didn’t have that pretty yarn! I wonder if that’s new?
I love that TV yarn…I think she had some Buffy stuff that got snatched up pretty quick too.
November 10th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Oh wow what a haul!!! I love the peacock yarn best though
I hope the flooding is sorted for good now!
November 10th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Oh…. that tvyarn… want it… badly….
November 11th, 2007 at 12:28 am
love the TV yarn – OMG want some!!
November 12th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
yay! I love seeing my yarn in blogs, thanks for posting the great pic! Jana